Florida woman, Zenaida Gonzalez, has been charged with credit card theft and grand theft after allegedly stealing a cancer patient's credit card and racking up $850 worth of purchases in Kissimmee and Orlando, according to the New York Post.
"She [Gonzalez] told detectives that she was the same person involved in the Casey Anthony case," sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain said, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Gonzalez sued Anthony after the latter's public trial and acquittal since the defense team in the murder case of 2-year-old Caylee used "Zanny the Nanny" as a potential suspect. Anthony named a woman, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, as the nanny Anthony claimed cared for Caylee and at whose address Anthony had claimed she dropped off Caylee before she went missing. "I met her at Universal Studios in 2006... through a mutual friend," Anthony said at the time, according to the Daily Mail. "We were friends a little over a year."
Police had searched for and questioned Gonzalez about the child as part of the investigation, but never made an arrest.
When the suit was filed in 2008, Gonzalez's lawyer, Keith Metnik, tried to get Anthony to admit that "Zanny the Nanny" was not a real person, but a lie she told in court. (Read the full two hour deposition here.) Anthony denied that she told such a lie.
Prosecutors said they believed "Zanny the Nanny" was actually a nickname Anthony used for Xanex, a downer that could cause sleepiness, which could have been used to subdue her daughter, but Anthony insisted she never gave drugs to Caylee.
Anthony was infamously acquitted of her daughter's murder in 2008 and a judge threw out Gonzalez's suit in September 2015, determining: "There is nothing in the statement (or in the entire hour-long conversation on July 25, 2008) to support [Gonzalez's] allegations that [Anthony] intended to portray [her] as a child kidnapper and potentially a child killer, or that [Anthony] intended to subject [her] to heightened police and media scrutiny," according to the Orlando Sentinel. The judge said he also did not think that Anthony's description of the mystery nanny matched Gonzalez's appearance.
